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Brains Brewery is using leftover beer to make hand sanitiser which is being donated to the NHS to help with the fight against Covid-19.

The Cardiff based brewer has been providing 50,000 litres of beer, equivalent to 160,000 pints, per week which has been turned into hand sanitiser with the help of Coles Distillery, in Carmarthenshire, and Swansea University.

Everything produced has been donated to NHS hospitals in Wales.

Head brewer at Brains Brewery Bill Dobson said: "When we were approached to support the project, we were delighted to be able to use our Dragon Brewery in such a way, to help support the NHS during this challenging time."

The project came about when Swansea University called for large quantities of ethanol , an essential ingredient in the production of hand sanitiser.

When Coles Distillery approached Brains Brewery to team up to meet the 80,000 litres of ethanol requirement, a trial batch of ABV unhopped all malt beer was produced and tested before being converted into ethanol and then passed onto the university to add peroxide and glycerol, to meet the accreditation of the World Health Organisation's recipe for hand sanitiser.

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Marcus Coles, of Coles Distillery said: "This project could not go ahead without the help of Brains Brewery who were there in our hour of need, to make and supply the high volume of beer we required to produce enough ethanol for the hand sanitiser production."

Hand sanitiser is an important component of PPE which NHS and healthcare workers need to stay safe and prevent them from catching Covid-19.